Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.

The kernel of truth sank into the fertile soil of [her] imagination, possibilities for a happy resolution suggesting themselves in vague flashes of potential and promise...

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Love is nature's psychotherapy.

I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.